Yep so after about 4 months of having my wheels/tires I'm going to (try) and find a shop that will repair them (only 1 really has curb rash) and tell me if they are bent or not. I took them to Wheel Works (i think thats the name) in Walnut creek a few months ago and they told me all were bent, but I have a feeling somethings up b/c I have looked over all of them and none of them look like they have any bends at all and they wanted like $150 per wheel to repair them. So anybody have any other shop recommendations in the Bay Area?

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.....I'm going to (try) and find a shop that will repair them (only 1 really has curb rash) and tell me if they are bent or not. I took them to Wheel Works (i think thats the name) in Walnut creek a few months ago and they told me all were bent, but I have a feeling somethings up b/c I have looked over all of them and none of them look like they have any bends at all and they wanted like $150 per wheel to repair them.I have a calibrated eye yet i cannot always tell if a wheel is slightly bent or not, unless it's an obvious bend. If you're in doubt, you can either take the wheels to your local tire shop and have them put each wheel on their balancing machine and spin them up - you'll quickly see if they're bent or not.

Another cheaper option would be to jack up your car, remove the front tire and remove the brakepads on that corner, bolt the bent wheel on snugly and spin it by hand as fast as you can and look at the inner and outer rim edges and see if it's running true or bent. This is how i found out that 3 of the 4 M Contours i recently bought were slightly bent. They did the same thing on the balancing machine when i went in to get tires. Luckily the bends didn't turn out to be bad enough to cause a problem.

And FWIW, Wheel Works here in So California is popular among my fellow BMW CCA members - just about everybody reports excellent work, even our car show guys with the classic Bimmers.

whats there address so i can possibly look them up :) thanx for the vouch ive been thinking about doing this pretty soon as well.

Wheel Techniques
http://www.wheeltechniques.com

I'll give Wheel Techniques a call tomorrow,

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What is your experience w/ Wheel Techniques (if you had wheels fixed there), how much did they charge?

They are a bit expensive but they do good work. I had three LTW's refinished at WHEELS AMETRICA and they charged $120 a wheel, but crap job... WHEEL TECHNIQUES charged a little more but awesome job. You can check out WHEELS AMERICA if you want. I don't have my car right now, but when I get it in a few days I can take pics of the wheels if you want.